KHOU-11 and KPRC-2 are reporting that warnings were given to the Mayor Pro Tem’s office about budget overruns. This is from KPRC:
Judy Gray Johnson, the director of the city’s Finance and Administration Department, said during a fiscal affairs committee meeting Tuesday morning that the Mayor Pro Tem’s Office was sent at least three warnings that they were going over budget.
KPRC Local 2 left messages for Johnson but she did not return the calls.
“I didn’t get them,” Alvarado said.
She said not only did she not see any warning letters, no one from the Finance and Administration Department contacted her directly.
“When something would potentially become a problem in my district office, I would get an e-mail. There were times I would get an e-mail from Regina Dixon in F&A. That never happened with the pro tem office,” Alvarado said.
And from KHOU:
Also Tuesday, finance officials with Mayor White’s office said they had warned Mayor Pro Tem Carol Alvarado months ago that her office was spending too much money.
But Alvarado said she never got the warnings.
When asked if this was more evidence that she should have kept a closer eye on her budget, she got testy.
“We’ve been through all this, I’m not answering any more questions about that. I answered these questions when this first happened, so I’m not going there,” she said.
“I want justice to be served,” said Alvarado. “We have people that stole taxpayer money and there need to be — uh, it needs to go through the proper procedure, through a grand jury, and people need to pay for what they did.”
Maybe Rosie Hernandez intercepted the warnings. She seems to have done everything else in that office.
BLOGVERSATION: You Were Warned! Sort of
